Exploring the Lusitania: Probing the Mysteries of the Sinking That Changed History by Robert D. Ballard Ever have a piece of grade A prime beef made into a passable hamburger? Yeah, that’s what this book was like. I wanted it to be fantastic. I have a morbid obsession with maritime tragedies, and the late 19th/early …
Dec 10
Book Reviews?
Hello Reader! I need your advice. You. Yes you. Why? Because I don’t have enough funny stories to keep this blog rolling. I need something else. Book reviews. What? Why? Because I like book reviews, that’s why! Also because goodreads is kinda pissing me off these days with their spamalot of “so-and-so added such-and-such to …
Dec 10
Poppy Plate 1
My friend Gabrielle brought a magazine into our pottery class with an interesting technique in which the potter painted flowers on white slip using different hues of tinted slips. I decided to try it out. Since we had a myriad of greens, the obvious choice for subject matter was botanical.
Dec 08
Weeble Wobble Bowl
When I was trimming a foot on this, I couldn’t get it to center properly, so I ended up just cutting the foot off entirely. I meant to make a three-peg foot, which I’ve done before, but my friends suggested it would be fun to have no foot at all. I waxed the rim to …
Dec 07
Meanest Mommy
Big Critter is eleven. She has her own cell phone, and she loves to text. What she doesn’t like is to walk anywhere. She would rather be driven everywhere she wants to go, or in a pinch, to be borne by slaves in a palanquin. She says it’s not her fault, she’s just lazy, as …